History & Timeline

OTC Global Holdings History and Timeline

From our humble beginnings in March 2007, when co-founder of OTC Global Holdings Javier Loya moved from being CEO of Houston-based energy firm Choice Brokerage and then acquired Choice Natural Gas, LP and Choice Power, LP to today, OTC Global has been about growth. Nearly every month for the past decade, there have been additions to the OTC Global team of companies and the global commodities powerhouse continues to thrive and grow. For years, we have been leading the industry in offering actionable and timely market data and brokerage support, and continue to grow our partnerships with data aggregators and independent brokerage firms to this day.

Our advanced trading analytics are now used by large corporations and individual investors in the energy commodity space around the world, and our client list includes some impressive names.

We are continuing to push and grow, rewriting what it means to be an independent institutional broker of commodities, with offices around the world from Chicago, New York, and New Jersey, to London, Geneva, and Singapore. We are now a leading liquidity provider on ICE, CME, and NFX, and serve more than 450 institutional clients.

HOUSTON – (March 7, 2018) – OTC Global Holdings (OTCGH) announced today that its subsidiary, Choice! Natural Gas, was voted the top broker in the North American Natural Gas – Henry Hub Category in the Energy Risk magazine annual commodities rankings survey. Choice! Natural Gas, with offices in Houston, New York and London, is a leading broker in natural gas options, natural gas basis, NGL, refined products, electricity, and weather derivatives.

“OTCGH and its subsidiary companies are committed to serving our clients with unmatched customer service, data and transparency across all markets,” said Javier Loya, OTCGH chairman and CEO. “This award is another example of the impact this company is continuing to make on the industry, and we’re honored for the team at Choice! to receive this recognition from the voters of Energy Risk for their hard work over the last year.”

This annual survey, conducted by Energy Risk, asks respondents to vote for their top three dealers and brokers in order of preference for any categories in which they have been active over the course of the year. Categories span the core markets of oil, natural gas, power, coal, base and precious metals, iron ore, emissions, biofuels, soft commodities, freight, weather, and commodity index products. Voters can base their decisions on a variety of criteria, including pricing, liquidity provision, counterparty risk, speed of execution and reliability.

For more information about OTCGH and its subsidiaries, including Choice! Natural Gas, visit www.otcgh.com.

About Choice! Natural Gas

Founded in 2005, Choice! Natural Gas is a portfolio company of OTC Global Holdings and a brokering group of EOX Holdings. Choice! is a leading broker in Natural Gas Options, Natural Gas Basis, NGL, Refined Products, Electricity, and Weather derivatives.

About OTC Global Holdings

Formed in 2007, OTC Global Holdings has become the world’s largest independent institutional broker of commodities, covering financial and physical instruments from offices in Chicago, Des Moines, Geneva, Houston, London, Louisville, New Jersey and New York. The company is a leading liquidity provider on CBOT, ICE, NYMEX and NFX, ranking number one amongst its peers in numerous derivatives contracts across biofuels, emissions, commodity index products, crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), metals, petrochemicals and refined products, power, proppants, soft commodities, and weather derivatives. The company serves more than 450 institutional clients, including over 70 members of the Global Fortune 500, and transacts in hundreds of different commodity delivery points in Asia, Europe and the Americas. To learn more about the company, please visit www.otcgh.com or go to https://youtu.be/5h6AlVHsyRM.

HOUSTON (February 2, 2018) – OTC Global Holdings (OTCGH) announced that in January 2018 its EOXLive platform brokered a record-setting 389,855 Natural Gas Options lots, eclipsing the firm’s previous record of 311,294 lots (from February 2017) by 25 percent. The interdealer broker’s transactions also accounted for an industry leading total of nearly one third of all block transactions during the month in addition to 39 percent of NFX’s record-setting 1,021,750 Natural Gas Options lots in January.

“We are thrilled to see EOXLive continuously contributing surpassing its previous monthly volume record by such a significant margin,” said Javier Loya, Chairman and Co-CEO of OTCGH. “Credit is due again to our brokers, who continue to champion the technology, as well as our clients and partners for their support.”

EOXLive, which allows users to trade directly on screen without having to pick up the phone, includes pre-trade markets and last-traded prices for natural gas options and leverages OTCGH’s strong market share to provide unique market intelligence and transparency. Recent updates to the platform also now automatically load indicative bids and offers from IM blasts, making it easy to manage and execute orders, and provide users instant access via a web-based platform, free embedded option pricing and analytics grids as well as a robust Markets Page.

In addition to natural gas, the EOXLive platform supports trading in the full spectrum of bilateral and exchange-traded commodities, both physical and financial, including power, petrochemical, crude, refined product, metal, agricultural, weather and environmental markets.

EOX Holdings LLC (EOX) is registered as an Introducing Broker with the National Futures Association (NFA). EOX delivers unique and comprehensive market data, introducing broker (IB) services and the EOXLive platform. EOXLive provides order and trade management, confirms, reporting and clearing for thousands of trader, hedger and market maker accounts. EOXLive Active Markets delivers comprehensive on-screen price discovery while keeping the important human element in the trader and broker relationship. Leveraging the liquidity of over 15 brokerage shops across the commodity spectrum, EOXLive customers have transparency and execution capabilities so they can trade like never before. EOX Holdings LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of OTC Global Holdings.

About OTC Global Holdings

Formed in 2007, OTC Global Holdings has become the world’s largest independent institutional broker of commodities, covering financial and physical instruments from offices in Chicago, Des Moines, Geneva, Houston, London, Louisville, New Jersey, New York and Singapore. The company is a leading liquidity provider on CBOT, ICE, NYMEX and NFX, ranking number one amongst its peers in numerous derivatives contracts across biofuels, emissions, commodity index products, crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), metals, petrochemicals and refined products, power, proppants, soft commodities, and weather derivatives. The company serves more than 450 institutional clients, including over 70 members of the Global Fortune 500, and transacts in hundreds of different commodity delivery points in Asia, Europe and the Americas. To learn more about the company, please visit www.otcgh.com or go to https://player.vimeo.com/video/146686709.

“Thanks to across the board support by our brokers, EOXLive’s adoption has grown tremendously as have the benefits for our clients and partners,” said Javier Loya, Chairman and Co-CEO of OTCGH. “We are pleased to see that our teams’ continued efforts as NFX’s broker partner have contributed to another milestone achievement on January 11,”

EOXLive, which allows users to trade directly on screen without having to pick up the phone, includes pre-trade markets and last-traded prices for natural gas options and leverages OTCGH’s strong market share to provide unique market intelligence and transparency. Recent updates to the platform also now automatically load indicative bids and offers from IM blasts, making it easy to manage and execute orders, and provide users instant access via a web-based platform, free embedded option pricing and analytics grids as well as a robust Markets Page.

In addition to natural gas, the EOXLive platform supports trading in the full spectrum of bilateral and exchange-traded commodities, both physical and financial, including power, petrochemical, crude, refined product, metal, agricultural, weather and environmental markets.

EOX Holdings LLC (EOX) is registered as an Introducing Broker with the National Futures Association (NFA). EOX delivers unique and comprehensive market data, introducing broker (IB) services and the EOXLive platform. EOXLive provides order and trade management, confirms, reporting and clearing for thousands of trader, hedger and market maker accounts. EOXLive Active Markets delivers comprehensive on-screen price discovery while keeping the important human element in the trader and broker relationship. Leveraging the liquidity of over 15 brokerage shops across the commodity spectrum, EOXLive customers have transparency and execution capabilities so they can trade like never before. EOX Holdings LLC is a wholly owned subsidiary of OTC Global Holdings.

About OTC Global Holdings

Formed in 2007, OTC Global Holdings has become the world’s largest independent institutional broker of commodities, covering financial and physical instruments from offices in Chicago, Des Moines, Geneva, Houston, London, Louisville, New Jersey, New York and Singapore. The company is a leading liquidity provider on CBOT, ICE, NYMEX and NFX, ranking number one amongst its peers in numerous derivatives contracts across biofuels, emissions, commodity index products, crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), metals, petrochemicals and refined products, power, proppants, soft commodities, and weather derivatives. The company serves more than 450 institutional clients, including over 70 members of the Global Fortune 500, and transacts in hundreds of different commodity delivery points in Asia, Europe and the Americas. To learn more about the company, please visit www.otcgh.com or go to https://player.vimeo.com/video/146686709.

News Release

OTC GLOBAL HOLDINGS’ CHOICE NATURAL GAS NAMED “BEST BROKER IN WEATHER RISK MANAGEMENT
IN NORTH AMERICA” FOR SECOND CONSECUTIVE YEAR

HOUSTON – (January 9, 2018) – Choice Natural Gas, a subsidiary of leading independent commodities interdealer broker OTC Global Holdings (OTCGH), has been named “Best Broker in Weather Risk Management in North America” by Environmental Finance for the second consecutive year. Led by Director of Weather Markets Nick Ernst, Choice was recognized for its excellence in weather risk management after performing exceptionally in the 2017 Environmental Finance Annual Market Rankings.

“We are honored to once again be named the best broker in weather risk management, an honor that we do not take lightly. Every day, we strive to provide our clients with the best possible service by leveraging the unmatched data and transparency offered only by our parent company, OTC Global Holdings. I believe that this commitment to mitigating client risk and maximizing their success is what sets us apart from others and is why we’re again being recognized,” said Ernst.

The accomplishment is another highlight for a banner year for OTCGH. In 2017, the company celebrated a decade of dominance through a number of hallmark achievements, including the expansion into the Asia Pacific region via the formation of OTC Asia in Singapore, naming Joe Kelly Co-CEO, acquiring Oil Brokerage Limited in London, and setting multiple record volume trading days on its EOXLive platform. For 10 years, OTCGH has sought to grow, diversify and serve its clients in ways unimaginable by competitors, which has allowed it to succeed while others have sold, folded or shrunken.

“We are honored to receive this award for the second consecutive year, which speaks to the talent and service provided to our clients,” said Javier Loya, Chairman and CEO of OTCGH. “Choice and Nick have played a significant role in the growth, success and diversification of our business. This level of commitment to client service is enabling our continued success in today’s challenging market.”

Formed in 2007, OTC Global Holdings has become the world’s largest independent institutional broker of commodities, covering financial and physical instruments from offices in Chicago, Des Moines, Geneva, Houston, London, Louisville, New Jersey, New York and Singapore. The company is a leading liquidity provider on CBOT, ICE, NYMEX and NFX, ranking number one amongst its peers in numerous derivatives contracts across biofuels, emissions, commodity index products, crude oil, natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs), metals, petrochemicals and refined products, power, proppants, soft commodities, and weather derivatives. The company serves more than 450 institutional clients, including over 70 members of the Global Fortune 500, and transacts in hundreds of different commodity delivery points in Asia, Europe and the Americas. To learn more about the company, please visit www.otcgh.com or go to https://vimeo.com/249607583.

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